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Shooting Success at County Competition

In 2007 Northern Norwich District decided to hold a Master at Arms Competition for the Scout Section. This incorporated separate competitions for archery and shooting and it proved very popular with Troops. The event has now taken place for 8 years and the competition between the individual Troops for the two trophies has increased over the years while, at the same time, the standard of shooting has gradually improved.

In 2011Norfolk Scouts introduced a County Shooting Competition and this too has become established as a regular event. Northern Norwich District won the competition in 2013 and was keen to repeat this in 2014.

The District shooting competition had been held in April and afterwards the top 8 Scouts form two mixed Group teams to represent the District at the County event.

On Saturday 20th September at the County event these young people represented the District. Their individual performances were outstanding as they excelled in air rifle and air pistol shooting. The statistics from the competition demonstrate this:

13 teams took part and Northern Norwich “A” team won the competition, whilst the “B” team were the Runners Up.

Out of a possible total score of 1200 the “A” Team scored 946 whilst the “B” team were only 5 points behind them with a score of 941.

To put in context how outstanding their performances were the full results were:

Team

Score

Position

Northern Norwich “A”

946

1st

Northern Norwich “B”

941

2nd

North West Norfolk “A”

856

3rd

Central Norfolk 1

828

4th

North East Norfolk “A”

815

5th

Southern Norfolk “A”

770

6th

East Norfolk “A”

743

7th

Southern Norfolk “B”

727

8th

Eastern Norwich “A”

671

9th

Central Norfolk “B”

658

10th

East Norfolk “B”

653

11th

North West Norfolk “B”

523

12th

North East Norfolk “B”

497

13th

The performance of the individual scouts was also outstanding. Out of a total of 52 scouts taking part in the competition all 8 of the Northern Norwich scouts finished in the top 11.

For rifle shooting there were a total of 200 points available per participant. Our top scout positions and scores were:

173 points – James Gunn

171 points – Peter Savory

169 points – Will Storey

165 points – Kane Dipple

For Pistol shooting a total of 100 points were available. Jonathan Jolly scored 88 points and on one target scored 46 out of 50 while Will Storey was very close behind with a score of 84.

These individual scores gave Northern Norwich three scouts in the top 4 in the competition with:

Will Storey the overall individual competition winner with a total score of 253.

James Gunn finished 3rd with a score of 249 points

Kane Dipple was 4th with a score of 240.

Trophies for the success were awarded to the team members by Trevor Orford, Assistant County Commissioner (Scouts).